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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
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Haile Selassie
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